California Proposition 1, Ban on Drinking Saloons (1918)

Proposition 1 appeared on the ballot in California in 1918 as an initiated state statute. Its goal was to regulate liquor use and sales, prohibit drinking saloons, and limit the number of liquor licenses available in a given area.

d It was defeated at the polls.

The Prohibition Amendment had appeared on the California ballot, and been defeated, just four short years earlier.